Winchester News Briefs and Septimus County Licenses
Winchester records show 85 marriage licenses issued in September. Police reported 170 arrests in September with drunkenness leading, plus 52 complaints investigated. Officials Carl Campbell Ray Garra brandt to officiate multiple games this weekend and Sunday at Martinsburg. One suspect, Warren D Vaugh, challenged alcohol type, fined $10 and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
O. W. Hollis
Carl Campbell
Ray Garrabrandt
Marshall-Leesburg
Leesburg
Warren County High School
Bipsaton
Front Royal
Warren D. Vaugh
State Farm
Waugh
Accident on Spring Road Causes Minor Car Damage
Two cars collided on a Monday morning on Spring Road about 50 feet north of Millwood Avenue. A 1935 Ford coach driven by Merton Andrew Madigan of Stephens City sustained about 15 dollars of front-end damage. A 1940 jet coupe driven by Julian Lee Patterson of 1233 E Cork Street sustained about 100 dollars in damage to the right wheel and fender. No injuries or arrests reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring Road
Millwood Avenue
Merton Andrew Madigan
Stephens City
Julian Lee Patterson
Cork Street
Court Fines Bobby Williams in Y City Case
Bobby Williams, colored, of Y City, was fined five dollars this morning by Judge John in a local court proceeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobby Williams
John
Rice in police court
Mary Cook testified she was at Cartwrights waiting for a cab when the defendant used abusive language. Williams denied cursing her and said he curses only when angry, a condition he attributes to jungle fever from military service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rice
Mary Cook
Cartwrights
Williams
Coronation of 59 coroners includes Dr Hermanl Pifer
A list released today names 59 coroners in the state. Among them Dr Hermanl Pifer of Winchester is appointed for Frederick County. Others include Dr J Smead of Sperryville for Rappahannock, Dr Harold Miller of Woodstock Shenandoah, and Dr George H Long of Luray for Page. Dr Pifer also named for the State Commission on postmortem matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hermanl. Pifer
Winchester
Frederick County
7 . Smead
Sperryville
Rappahannock
Harold Miller
Woodstock
Shenandoah
George H. Long
Luray
Page
I. Pifer
Advises Holding Livestock To Await Price Relief
Richmond Virginia livestock farmers are urged to hold stock until price ceilings rise. Commission L M Walker Jr of the Department of Agriculture says producers should refrain from selling while OPA ceilings fail to cover production costs. He notes livestock price cuts echo payroll reductions and urges slow marketing until fairer prices are set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
L. M. Walker, Jr
Department of Agriculture
Department
Walker
OPA Decontrol Board
OPA
Plans for Italian Peace Area Governance Outlined
A proposed governance plan for the Italian Peace area includes a council appointed by the Security Council after consulting Yugoslavia and Italy. A governor would maintain order, conduct foreign relations, appoint judges, and may declare a state of siege. Free transit for all nations and original citizenship for June 10 1940 residents are included. The Security Council to set withdrawal dates and a provisional government to rule until elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Security Council
Yugoslavia
Italy
Council
Zone Council
Foreign Ministers’ Council
Death of Winchester Contractor Grandison M Preffitt at 75
Grandison M. Preffitt 75 a Winchester contractor and builder of 118 West Monmouth street died in Winchester Memorial Hospital at 8 30 p m He was born in Operquon Frederick county son of Captain Philip and Frances Hiner Preffitt Surviving are three children and four brothers Pallbearers named. funeral Friday at 2 from Jones Funeral Home with Rev S J Goode officiating Interment Mt Hebron cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grandison M. Preffitt
Monmouth Street
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Operquon
Frederick County
Philip
Frances Hiner Preffitt
Winchester
Edna Love Mcliwee
Hayfield
Florida
Woodmen of the World
Lutheran Church
James A. Sadler
Washington, D. C
Wesley Crisman
Selby W. Preffitt
Rockville
Bismark, Preffitt
Elwood Otto
Dinkle Preffitt
Joanne
Richard
Stephen Preffitt
Delmar
Wayne
Marco
Vester McKlwee
Lucian Preffitt
Kaufman Brubaker
Jones Funeral Home
Rev
S. J. Goode
Mt. Hebron
Navy outlines Pacific base shift to Guam outpost
At a press conference Adm. John H. Towers announced a new U.S. Navy policy for the Pacific to strengthen an Aleutian base and extend a post to Guam about 3,000 miles west. Towers said Guam would become a strategic outpost akin to Pearl Harbor in symbol and value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Harbor
U. S. Navy
Pacific
Siberia
Guam
Adm
John H. Towers
Pacific Fleet
Truman
Washington
Towers
Hawaii Naval Base
Miners Call Government Seizure of Coal Mines a Fake
United Mine Workers Convention in Atlantic City denounced government operation of soft coal mines as a fake and delusion. They asserted the same men run the mines under seizure and urged an agreement to relinquish federal control to private operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
United Mine Workers Convention
Federal Coal Mines Administration
Rally Day at Winchester Congregational Church marked by anniversary
The Congregational Christian Church of Winchester plans a special Rally Day next Sunday with World Communion observance and a guest speaker Rev. William T. Scott D D superintendent of the Southern Convention. Dr Scott will speak on What it means to be a Christian and The Larger Outlook. A Fellowship hour follows the evening service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Christian Church of
Winchester
Robert Armster Whitsten
William T. Scott
Virginia
North Carolina
W. Va
Scott
Orville Hoover
Progress in Maritime Strike Talks Reported
Washington officials said some progress was made on union security issues delaying the maritime strike settlement. President Truman pledged to correct injustices from the economy order curtailing flood control funds and reexamine discarded projects. Arab delegates urged an independent democratic state in the Holy Land by end of 1948 for the Palestine Conference. General Devers stated Americans are thrice armed for peace and will win it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maritime Washington
Edgar L. Warren
Federal Conciliation Service
Washington
Truman
London
Holy Land
New York
Fort Monroe
Jacob L. Devers
Army Ground Forces
Bernard Baruch stands before UN Atomic Energy panel
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission delegate Bernard Baruch testified in New York on October 3. He addressed demand statements and outlined U S positions regarding atomic energy control and international oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
New York
Bernard M. Baruch
United States
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Wallace denies errors in atomic control plan critique
Baruch accuses Henry A. Wallace of making mistakes in criticizing the United States Atomic Control Plan. At a news conference a 76 year old elder statesman says Wallace admitted to Baruch last Friday he was in error and did not sign a statement acknowledging the errors prepared by Baruch and Wallace representatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry A. Wallace
Baruch
Wallace
Lanier Bust Unveiled at NYU Hall of Fame
Representatives of Southern groups attend at New York University for the unveiling of a bronze bust of Sidney Lanier the 77th Hall of Fame tribute. The statue is a gift from the United Daughters of the Confederacy honoring the 19th century poet who died in 1881.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York University
Hall of Fame
Sidney Lanier
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Federal conciliators press talks to end Pittsburgh power strike
Pittsburgh officials report federal conciliators resumed joint negotiations with indp union and company reps. The 10 day power strike has drained costs and worker energy, with hopes rising for a settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Miners Hunger Strike Closes Eunice Coal Plant in Raleigh County
In Charleston on October 3 closures were ordered at the Princess Dorothy Coal Company mine in Eunice Raleigh County after 425 miners began a hunger strike to protest wages and could not buy meat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. VA
Charleston
Princess Dorothy Coal Company
Eunice
Raleigh County
Passengers Named From An American Overseas Airlines Crash
The list of 39 aboard the DC 4 crash includes Helen Downing of Thomson Georgia and her two children Laurie and Barbara. Others include John Simmons from Richmond Virginia and Vera Himes of North Arlington Virginia. The flight was NYC to Stephenville Newfoundland with bookings to Frankfurt and Berlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfurt
Germany
New York
Berlin
Amsterdam
Holland
Helen Downing
Thomson, Ga
Laurie Elizabeth
Barbara Kent
William Westerfield
Patchogue
N. Y
Robert B. Leehr
Juniper Valley Road
Middle Village
John Tierney
Jamaica
Jerome Lewis
Long Beach
James M. Barry
Kingston
Mark Spelar
Jackson Heights
Herbert Ewing
Margaret Burleigh
Ewing
Greensburg
Ind
Spelar
Josephine
Barry
Chester
Newfoundland
John Simmons
Stuart Ave
Richmond
Helen Kent Downing
Thomson
Laurie Elizabeth Downing
Barbara Kent Downing
Rudolph Max Goepp
Strand
Newcastle
Del
Alda Boyd Stabler
Tuckahoe St
Bellwood
Vera C. Himes
Arlington
Horace Eastburn Thompson
12Th St
Philadelphia
Hardenburg’s WWII Missions and Normandy Invasion Service
Hardenburg served with British and U S forces in World War II. He sailed for England in February 1944 and trained with Commandos in Scotland. He landed on Utah Beach on D-Day with the Fourth Infantry Division and drove intelligence and technical work across Europe. He later served with Admiral Osbourne in Brest and with Naval Technical Mission in Europe. He returned to the U S in 1946 as a Lieutenant Commander and received the Navy Commendation Ribbon for Normandy and Brittany operations. He now works in the Office of Naval Intelligence documenting German WWII history. He is a graduate of the University of Rochester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chief of Naval Operations
Hardenburg
United States
Normandy
Washington
England
Scotland
Utah Beach
Brest
Osbourne
Paris
Germany
France
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Europe
Leipzig
Ruhr Valley
Norway
Denmark
Commander of Naval Forces
United States Naval Reserve
Navy
Brittany
Cherbourg
Harold G. Stark
Office of Naval Intelligence
University of Rochester
N. Y
George Harper to Speak at Winchester District Rally
George Harper secretary of the National Conference of the Methodist Youth Fellowship will be guest speaker at the Winchester District Rally in Front Royal Methodist Church on Friday evening October 4 at 8 p m Youth from 31 charges 113 churches expected Luray Choir to perform two anthems Rev John Teter Winchester District Director of no Work to preside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Harper
The
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Winchester
Front Royal Methodist Church
Harper
Methodist Church
Luray
Luray Methodist Church
John Teter
Answers to the Daily Quiz Revealed in Print
The page lists quiz answers including Louisiana for Q1 Catholic Q3 Prince Philip of Greece Q4 Orestes Q5 and a set of states Arkansas Illinois Kansas Massachusetts Texas for Q6 a turnout of Twenty thousand for Q7 and copper for Q10 with Q9 showing voted all out support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
Prince Philip of
Greece
Orestes
Arkansas
Illinois
Kansas
Massachusetts
Texas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Winchester News Briefs
Chappie
Pifer
Mr. Preffitt
United Mines
the Star
Mot
Cma
John W. Rosenberger & Co
South Braddock St
World News
Hope For
Farm Bureau
Kak
Giscense O
Columbus
Ohio
G. L Craig
Loudoun St
Roy W. Earl
Valley Ave
McDonald
Acorn Heights
H.wley
Berryville
J. A. Hotinger
Mutual Insurance
N. Loudoun
G. B. Masters Life Insurance Co
Brumback’s
J. G. Holsinger & Son
Court Square
George Washington Garage
Chapman Motor CO
Adam Fall
Bell 'S Core
Winchester Furniture CO
South Loudoun St
New Philco
Philco
Emerson
Miller & Anderson
E. Boscawen St
Virginia 1 Loan and& Thrift Corporation
Grove’s
J.W. Grove Furniture. CO
Ti Sundown
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